Immortal Curtius, Heaven hath deigned to hear Thy aspirations and thy dying prayer For Rome and for thy memory: it shall be A watchword to the patriot and the free 'Till Rome shall perish. Since thy deed sublime, Two thousand years have join'd the flight of Time; Earth's mightiest empires, one by one o'erthrown, Have seen thy country matchless and alone; Supreme in arts and arms. Her godlike race Of statesmen, poets, orators, who grace Th' eternal city's annals, have arisen, And shone, and set like stars—and o'er the scene Of her departing greatness, trod the throng Of unredeeming tyranny and wrong; The Goth, the Vandal, and the Hun have given Her pride and grandeur to the winds of heaven. New times, new creeds, new worlds have sprung to birth, And countless changes overswept the earth, But kindles still the generous emotion Of youth, at thy heroic self-devotion; Nor may the votaries of a purer faith, And loftier hopes, think slightly of thy death— For had thy lot in after days been thrown, Thou might'st have been a Christian, and have known The ardent zeal which, shrinking not t' engage The fangs of beasts, or man's more brutal rage, Had given thy spirit from the flames to rise, And seek a martyr's crown beyond the skies; By thy example fired in many a land Shall future Washingtons and Hampdens stand, Unbought by gold, unaw'd by despot power, Between their country and her perilous hour— And in the historic page their names shall shine In stainless lustre, unimpaired, like thine. _Richmond, July 25._ {547} BRITISH PARLIAMENT IN 1835. NO. II. THE HOUSE OF LORDS. The chamber of the House of Lords is close to that of the Commons. The constant communication between these two bodies, renders it necessary that they should sit within the same palace. The recent destruction of the old Parliament House, by fire, has not separated them. Their temporary chambers are connected by temporary passages, leading from one to the other. Along them Members of the House of Commons, personally, carry their bills to the bar of the Peers; while the Peers despatch their messengers to lay their own before the representatives of the people. The Ministers do not fail to avail themselves of this proximity. Being entitled to a seat only in that chamber to which they belong as Members of Parliament, when any struggle between themselves and the opposition is going on at the same time in both houses, they are at least enabled to exchange messages, from minute to minute, and to regulate their movements accordingly.